Use The Texas Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer to review the compensation of hundreds of thousands of state and municipal employees in Texas, including those working for state agencies, public universities, school districts and mass-transit entities. This data is obtained by requesting salary records from those public entities through the Texas Public Information Act.
The Tribune publishes this information because its journalists believe that disclosing how tax dollars are spent is in the public interest. To date, this database contains:
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Name | Type | Employees | Median salary | Last updated |
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Houston | City | 21,876 | $51,194 | 07/17/2014 |
Beaumont ISD | School District | 2,595 | $43,468 | 07/15/2014 |
Katy ISD | School District | 11,230 | $29,100 | 07/01/2014 |
The University of Texas at Tyler | University | 2,206 | $46,811 | 03/01/2014 |
University of Texas at El Paso | University | 2,553 | $41,673 | 02/25/2014 |
University of Texas at Dallas | University | 4,048 | $39,000 | 02/19/2014 |
University of Texas at Austin | University | 13,094 | $50,000 | 02/14/2014 |
University of Texas of the Permian Basin | University | 428 | $42,285 | 02/14/2014 |
University of Texas System Administration | University | 605 | $71,105 | 02/14/2014 |
University of Texas at Arlington | University | 3,288 | $45,878 | 02/13/2014 |
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